THE WITCH’S FAMILIAR: WHAT THE CAT REMEMBERED

In Episode Seven, we step into one of the oldest, strangest, most beloved mysteries in the witch’s world — the bond between a witch and her familiar. This is not a story about pets. This is a story about witnesses. Guardians. Mirrors. The beings who walk beside us not because we trained them, but because they remembered us.

Together, we explore the mythic origins of familiars across continents — from the shapeshifting guardians of the Celtic isles, to the protective house spirits of the Mediterranean, to the feline guides revered in ancient Egypt, and the animal allies honored across Indigenous traditions worldwide. We unravel where the lore converges, where it contradicts, and where it reveals the deeper truth: familiars are not “helpers.” They are agreements.

In this episode, we talk about: ✨ what a familiar is (and what it absolutely is not) ✨ the metaphysics of companionship and psychic resonance ✨ why cats stand at the threshold between worlds ✨ how familiars function as mirrors, messengers, and memory-keepers ✨ and what it means when an animal chooses you

From there, we turn our gaze skyward for this week’s Full Moon influences — a lunar moment drenched in intuition, boundary-setting, and deep listening — before returning to the hearth for Kitchen Witchery. This week’s recipe, Lavender & Vanilla Warm Rice-Milk Nightcup, is a spell disguised as comfort: a nighttime ritual for calming the nervous system, softening the psychic field, and inviting your familiar spirit (physical or otherwise) to draw near.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt watched over… chosen… or accompanied by something that understood them long before words were possible. It is for every witch who has wondered why some animals lock eyes with them like they’re remembering an oath.

If you’ve ever felt the brush of a tail against your ankle at the exact moment a message arrives… If you’ve ever sensed a presence curling beside you in grief or ritual… If you’ve ever believed an animal knew you deeper than language…

This episode is a key.

Step into the quiet with me, weird one. The cat remembers. And tonight, so will you.

FULL MOON RITUAL: THE WATER KNOWS YOUR NAME

In Episode Six, we enter the oldest mirror on Earth — water — and ask it to tell us who we are now. This is our first Full Moon ritual of the year, a night when memory rises like a tide and the body becomes a shoreline for every story we’ve ever carried.

Together we walk through the science, the folklore, and the lived truth that water is never passive. It listens. It remembers. It responds. From the Moon’s gravitational pull to the human heartbeat, from ancient purification rites to modern trauma research, this episode traces the thread between the water around us and the water within us — and how both can become portals into healing.

We speak of the wells of Brigid, the tides of the Aegean, the rivers that shaped civilizations, and the ways our ancestors understood full moons not as “manifestation nights,” but as revelation nights — when what has settled at the bottom of the soul begins to stir.

This is a ritual episode: grounding, lunar, intimate. In Kitchen Witchery, we reconnect the body to the magic with our Moon-Steeped Sweet Potato Stew — a soft, warm, nourishing bowl designed to settle the nervous system after emotional release. It’s food as balm, food as spellwork, food as integration.

If you’ve been feeling full, heavy, overwhelmed, or quietly ready to change… If you’ve been carrying a truth in your chest that hasn’t yet found its voice… If you want a ritual that meets you where you actually are — not where the world thinks you “should” be — this episode is water, moonlight, and permission.

Come closer, weird one. Let the tide rise. The water remembers you.

(The First in the Raven’s Trick Series)

In Episode Five, we open a brand-new doorway in Raven’s Lore Cast — the first in a multi-year, multi-dimensional series called Raven’s Trick, where each installment reveals a truth hidden in plain sight, wrapped in mischief, paradox, and shadowlight. These stories don’t behave. They bend. They slip. They reorient everything you thought you knew about magic, identity, fate, and the strange architecture of your own becoming.

This opening chapter, The Trick of Time, brings us into conversation with one of humanity’s oldest illusions: that time is linear, obedient, and sensible. Raven knows better — and so do the ancestors. Across cultures, mythologies, and cosmologies, time has always been depicted as a loop, a serpent, a wheel, a spiral, a trickster’s knot we spend our whole lives trying to untangle. But what if time isn’t something that happens to you… but something you happen through?

We walk the edges of that question through the myth of Ganymede — the mortal boy taken to Olympus, suspended between immortality and memory, forever young, forever outside the clock. His story is a mirror for anyone who has ever felt out of sync with the world’s expectations: the queer, the liminal, the neurodivergent, the too-fast, the too-slow, the out-of-order, the beautifully nonlinear souls who grow the way constellations grow — suddenly, sideways, all at once.

In the celestial segment, we untangle the Aquarian sky — the Water Bearer whose myth is a trick of its own. Aquarius pours, yes… but what? Water? Time? Memory? Revolution? We explore the ancient belief that Aquarius controlled not the rains, but the release of forgotten worlds, and how midwinter has always been a season when the veil thins not just between realms, but between timelines.

In Kitchen Witchery, we bring the Trick of Time into the body with Star-Kissed Citrus & Saffron Risotto — a dish that tastes like memory returning, tradition bending, and sunlight reaching you from both the past and the future. Slow-cooked, deeply fragrant, and calibrated to remind you that good magic takes the time it takes.

If you’ve ever felt haunted by versions of yourself you haven’t lived yet — If you’ve ever sensed that your past is not behind you but beside you — If you’ve ever woken up knowing something you haven’t learned — this episode is your invitation.

Step into the trick, weird one. Time is ready to tell the truth.

In this first installment of Sabbats Across the Globe, the Manor shifts — and suddenly we’re no longer in familiar forests or candlelit rooms. We’re in the Arctic Circle, where winter is honest, the night is endless, and the aurora drapes itself across the sky like a living memory. Here, Raven steps into the oldest version of Yule: the Solstice vigil shaped by Sámi, Inuit, Yupik, Iñupiat, Kalaallit, and Old Norse cosmologies, held in standing-stone circles carved by wind and time.

This is the longest night — a night that was never about triumph or glitter, but about endurance, reciprocity, and the sacred responsibility of keeping a single flame alive. Together we explore ancestral midwinter traditions, the cosmology of the North, the truth of the Long Night, and the quiet power of tending an ember when the world has gone cold.

Inside the traveling Manor, Madya Pathikã reveals her deeper nature for the first time — old as story itself, shifting the world outside her windows to bring Raven where the ancestors are ready to speak. Beneath the aurora’s green fire, you’ll hear the drum-pulse of ancient winter teachings: how communities survived the dark, how the land shaped spirit, and why Yule was never just a holiday — it was a vow.

Part lore immersion, part shamanic remembering, part whispered encouragement to your own inner flame, this episode invites you to honor the truth at the heart of every Arctic Solstice tradition:

✨ You do not have to blaze to survive the dark. ✨ Your small flame is enough. ✨ The sun always finds its way home — and so will you.

Step into the circle, Witch.The Longest Night is calling.

In Episode Three, we step into the liminal — into the queer, shimmering threshold where identity stops behaving and starts becoming. This is our Gemini deep dive, the place in the wheel where duality becomes a doorway instead of a demand. Together, we walk with Castor and Pollux — the immortal and the mortal, the bright and the earthbound — twins whose bond was so profound it forced the gods to rewrite the rules. Their myth is a love story, a grief story, a transformation story, and a mirror held up to anyone who has ever felt “too much,” “too many,” or “more than one thing.” This episode is for the queer, trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, Two-Spirit, and beautifully liminal souls who contain more than one truth at a time.

From celestial lore to the Geminid meteor shower to the mischievous teachings of Mercury, we explore what it means to live between worlds — to be both shadow and spark, both grounded and cosmic, both the fire and the soft thing it warms. And when the sky begins to fall in streaks of glittering defiance, we remember that duality isn’t contradiction; it’s completeness.

In Kitchen Witchery, we anchor the magic into the body with our Twin Flame Cocoa — dark, lush, spicy, unapologetically sensual — and Blood Orange Vanilla Cloud Cakes, soft enough to melt on the tongue and bright enough to taste like rebirth. These aren’t just recipes. They are rituals for the ones who refuse to choose between their truths.

If you’ve ever felt like you were living in the in-between… if you’ve ever held two identities, two desires, two futures in your chest… if you’ve ever wondered whether your contradictions are actually your power… this episode is a constellated yes.

Step into the threshold, weird one. The Twins are waiting.

In Episode Two, we step through the first of four seasonal Raven gateways — a year-long journey that will take us across continents, mythologies, and the secret places inside our own ribcages. This is Threshold One: Winter’s Gate, where the Super Moon rises like a silver drum and Raven becomes the one who teaches us how to cross instead of circle.

Together we explore the Pacific Northwest origins of Raven as light-bringer, world-shifter, and sacred disruptor — a being who reminds us that transformation rarely arrives politely. We dive into the history, the teaching, the symbolism of winter thresholds, and the deeper truth carried by every Raven story on this coastline:

✨ Creation begins with wanting. ✨ Change begins with mischief. ✨ Thresholds open from the inside first.

This episode is part mythic deep dive, part cosmic initiation, part fireside whisper to your becoming. If you’ve been feeling the pull toward something bigger — something older — something you can’t quite name yet… Raven is waiting at the gate.

Step through, weird one. The story is already inside you.

Introducing Raven's Lore to the world. We discuss creation myths, celestial happening, kitchen witchery.

Hello beautiful listeners,

A quick update from the Raven’s Lore Cast hearth: my husband — who edits every episode with extraordinary care — has just informed me of some scheduling changes with his work. This means we need to adjust our production pace to keep the quality of the show exactly where we want it to be.

For now, we’ll be releasing one episode per week, which allows us to maintain the depth, research, magic, and sound quality you’ve come to expect.

Our “Raven at the Threshold: Indigenous Peoples of North America Part I & II” episodes are still happening — but they’ll debut later, when we have the time and space to craft them with the respect and precision they deserve.

Thank you for your understanding, your excitement, and your trust. This community is already more incredible than I ever imagined.

With so much gratitude, Raven